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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND THIRD-PARTY LICENSES:

This software is a GUI wrapper that integrates the following models and research:

1. SAM 2.1 (Segment Anything Model 2.1) by Meta AI
   - Original Paper: "SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos"
   - Authors: Nikhila Ravi, Valentin Gabeur, Yuan-Ting Hu, et al.
   - License: Apache 2.0
   - Repository: https://github.com/facebookresearch/segment-anything-2
   - This GUI is NOT affiliated with Meta AI - it's an independent interface

2. Grounding DINO by IDEA Research
   - Original Paper: "Grounding DINO: Marrying DINO with Grounded Pre-Training for Open-Set Object Detection"
   - Authors: Shilong Liu, Zhaoyang Zeng, Tianhe Ren, et al.
   - License: Apache 2.0
   - Repository: https://github.com/IDEA-Research/GroundingDINO
   - This GUI is NOT affiliated with IDEA Research - it's an independent interface

DISCLAIMER:
This is purely a GUI interface to make these powerful AI models easier to use.
All credit for the underlying AI technology goes to the original researchers.
This project only provides a user-friendly web interface and does not claim
any ownership of the underlying models or algorithms.

The models are downloaded from Hugging Face and used according to their
respective licenses. Please refer to the original repositories for detailed
license terms and attribution requirements.